I just finished reading chapter 2 of The Kite Runner, by Khaled Housseini. In the first chapter, I learned that the narrator has moved to San Francisco later in his life, and started telling this story when a friend from his past called him unexpectedly. In this chapter, the author establishes a narrator who is remembering his past to tell the story. Amir, the narrator, tackles the tricky task of both looking backward to tell the story, and teasing the reader about what is yet to come.
The line, "Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 - and all that followed - was already laid in those first words" you can see how the author manages this type of organization. It is crucial to build tension in a story, even if the narrator is remembering the past, and in this chapter we can see how it is possible to do both things at once.
The line, "Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 - and all that followed - was already laid in those first words" you can see how the author manages this type of organization. It is crucial to build tension in a story, even if the narrator is remembering the past, and in this chapter we can see how it is possible to do both things at once.